doegling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).
Noun[edit]
doegling (plural doeglings)
- A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
- 1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116:
- This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C24H25O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the analysis of the unsaponified Doegling train-oil and the absence of glycerine.
- 1866, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 180:
- Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.
- 1904, George M. Gould, “Myronin”, in A Dictionary of New Medical Terms, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. Blakiston, page 374:
- An ointment base said to be a mixture of soap, carnauba wax, and doegling oil.
References[edit]
- “dœgling, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. 
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